On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 04:53, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
...
> >> [...]
> >> >(7) Not likely to go in ever. (political reasons)
> >>
> >> What are these "political reasons?"
> >
> >Linus does not believe in debuggers, lots of other people do,
> >but not Linus. Search an archive of the kernel mailing list
> >for the details on this.
I believe what Linus said, was that he did not like debuggers in the
kernel tree and viewed it as bloat, constant source of pain, etc.
I remember some mail on this from a time ago.
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